Each year the awards its highest honor, the , to affiliates that meet high standards of performance for affiliate programming to promote improvement in the teaching of the English language arts.
This year seven affiliates will be recognized at the Affiliate Breakfast on Sunday morning of the in Minneapolis. All these affiliates have won this award multiple times, maintaining and enhancing their programming to serve literacy educators in their areas. Listed below are the seven to be honored along with one or two outstanding programs that make them excellent:
鈥� for its twelfth year. CLAS cultivates partnerships with the Colorado, Denver, and CSU Writing Projects to sponsor a .
鈥� for its thirteenth year. GCTE publishes a strong and sponsors a .
鈥� for its second year.聽 ICTE holds a session at its conference based on materials from the . The session is designed for all present to discuss various education issues and the affiliate鈥檚 president participates in the discussion in order to gain information s/he can take into the world and use when speaking for the Iowa Council. As this year鈥檚 session facilitator James Davis noted,
鈥淚 see it as a worthy effort, enacting the notion that unless one endeavors somewhat systematically to interact with colleagues and gather diverse perspective, one is able to be a representative teacher but not a teacher representative.鈥�
鈥� for its eighth year. OCTELA has adopted to support the teaching and learning of literacy.
鈥� for its fifth year. OCTE has developed cross-institutional projects with the Department of Education and school districts in the state, such as the .
鈥� for its seventh year. TCTELA keeps its members in touch with legislators during its at the state capitol.
鈥� for its seventh year. VATE sponsors an annual 鈥淟iteracy Explosion鈥� and African American Read-In Activities –see .